66th Shoot

For this shoot i looked into the area around the Ikon gallery in Birmingham, I chose this place as it has a really interesting contemporary art theme around the area. This is interesting to me because it was just outside this gallery that has been growing in popularity for the past few years with many internationally known artist's displaying work here every year.

65th Shoot

I noticed that a group of skater's would practise at an unfinished park near my area almost every weekend (considering the weather was good). I used to skate when I was much younger and although the practise died the love for the sport did not, probably due to the fun memories I had being in that sort of community. I did struggle to take many good photos at first as it did seem like i was just chasing them around and trying to hard to keep up, after a while I noticed a pattern they took when doing their tricks so I stayed at different places. This helped me set up my positioning as well as I did not have to move constantly which meant I could focus on the skater and on the background with much more ease 

64th Shoot

There was a strong fog around Birmingham that was caused by the quick change in whether that seemed to go on all night before. I took this as an opportunity to walk around the city again and me being me well I couldn't possibly leave without my camera. The lighting was much better than what I thought and the only complaint was probably the cold hand's I got from frosty conditions. The photos turned out better than what I expected, I think the whole shoot in general had this eery sort of feel with the city looking abandoned in a way.

63rd Shoot

Today we had a gallery opening in our college and I was one of the artist's to have work on display, if you can remember the string project from a few weeks back. We had to have our work changed slightly so that it would fit in with the white box sort of theme the curator's were going for. The process was interesting as we never thought of how our piece woud look like in just the one colour and to be fair it did look well with the rest of the work being put up.

62nd Shoot

Tonight's trip around Birmingham may seems a little simular and that is because I have been teaching my friend a few thing's about the camera he has acquired. We decided to go out into the city to practise and I showed him how to use his camera while using my photos as an example.

61st Shoot

For my project in fine art I was researching Bill Viola and his photography work in specific which is what inspired me for todays shoot. I say it was a shoot but really scanning is more appropriate, after thinking of ways to use his type of theme I used a scanner from my printer to get the desired effect. You could say this is cheating but I would refer to it as improvising in a way and to be fair the outcome did surprise me in the distortion effect it has.

60th Shoot

I practise life drawing every week in my college with a group of people, this help's me with figurative drawing and enables me to see the human form in different ways. When I say a different way I am referring to the shape and tone of a person becomes the primary feature I don't look at that person as a human but rather a collage of shapes and tones. With practise this becomes easier and you are more likely to see people on a different way, I see people as a reflection of light when I draw them.